Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to allow [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is renewed speculation that a referendum may present the Government with the only practical way out of the Maastricht quagmire , in spite of fresh assurances from the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , that the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill would survive sufficiently intact to allow ratification of the treaty . |
| 2 | Around the turn of the century , when the rate of litigation was lower and officials were less willing to allow complainants to drop charges , about one-half of all cases came to trial . |
| 3 | There was a railed-off space on top of the cabins which served as a kind of open-air lounge , sufficiently high to allow passengers both to enjoy the breeze and to see over the bank . |
| 4 | Precautions for experimental animals will inevitably be less stringent to allow access to scientists and their technicians . |
| 5 | The removal of trees constitutes the removal of both biomass and nutrients so it is important for sustainable yield that logging rotations are sufficiently long to allow replenishment . |
| 6 | The speaker 's ability to plan utterances is not sufficiently good to allow planning and production to co-occur smoothly and without interference ; and so there are periods when production must suffer if planning is to proceed . |
| 7 | By the same token , the business arrangements in many organisations are now regionally orientated , and it seems only logical to allow groups of offices that can collectively meet the Institute 's requirements to provide pre- and post-qualification training as single entities — or training office groups . |
| 8 | Categories of expenditure should be sufficiently flexible to allow transfer of funds if increase in one category would lead to overall savings . |
| 9 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 10 | The authorities — in this case the military authorities — were extremely reluctant to allow members of the armed forces to contract such marriages , and made it as difficult as possible for anyone wishing to do so . |
| 11 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |
| 12 | It seems only fair to allow Wordsworth the last word . |
| 13 | Politically , Britain was not prepared to allow WEU to intrude upon Anglo-American relationships , and placed it a poor second to NATO . |
| 14 | " I am not prepared to allow fishing which endangers dolphins ' , he said , adding that " we have warned these fishermen that if the law is changed they will have to cease fishing " . |
| 15 | The average aquarium is often not large-enough to allow numbers of these territorial species to live in harmony and selection of fish requires care to avoid territorial squabbles . |
| 16 | It is not fanciful to allow animals recognitional capacities . |
| 17 | Members of the ruling class sought to increase agricultural production by land reclamation and other projects , and farmers diversified into alternative crops and non-agricultural by-employment to supplement their incomes , but the ruling class was not keen to allow Japan 's farmers to reap the benefits of any increase . |
| 18 | A US forces driving permit is not sufficient to allow supervision ( Urey v Lummie , [ 1962 ] 2 All ER 463 ) as a ‘ licence ’ means a licence to drive a motor vehicle granted under Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 19 | We are , or should be , much more willing to allow children to enjoy the special world of childhood without forcing them into premature adulthood . |
| 20 | ‘ So it would seem much more sensible to allow badge holders access to start with and then withdraw it if it becomes unworkable . ’ |
| 21 | If we can choose the means by which we learn nursing , we are more likely to allow others to choose the way they are cared for . |
| 22 | It is difficult and probably impossible to allow people thus abused to make statements in the press which can only interfere with the process of justice by which someone is tried . |
| 23 | It is also vital to allow time for full creative responses ( see Box 12 ) . |
| 24 | My Working Group was solely concerned to allow teachers the freedom to choose , and to prevent another media extravaganza about essential books in the canon . |
| 25 | He concentrated entirely on opera seria , attempting to engage the acknowledged leader among Italian opera composers , Niccòlo Piccinni ; he was even prepared to allow Piccinni a rare concession , his own choice of libretto . |
| 26 | For the Japanese , the way in which the Russians gained possession of the disputed islands — by breaking the non-aggression pact which operated , and by an opportunistic advance into Japanese-held Northeast Asia when it was evident that the Japanese were already on their last legs — makes Japan doubly unwilling to allow Russia their possession . |
| 27 | The tests reported in table 3.1 may be insufficiently powerful to allow rejection . |
| 28 | Here , unfortunately , no restaurant area is yet available to allow customers to eat what they buy where they buy it , but the time spent waiting for a takeaway sandwich will be an invaluable education in Italian food . |
| 29 | This condition has been widely noted to have a distinct , seasonality of occurrence , appearing in greatest incidence in temperate areas during the warm summer months , and almost disappearing when the temperatures of autumn , winter and spring are too low to allow development of eggs to the infective stage . |
| 30 | Sgt Hayter 's problems were only half over as the height of the museum building was too low to allow assembly inside the building , so R5868 had to be assembled outside . |